Registration Fraud + Poll Tax

This isn’t as big a story in the mainstream media because it hasn’t hit Drudge and Fox – most likely because it involves a pricey, private, Caucasian consultancy rather than “new Black Panthers” or ACORN or just regular folks.

Strategic Allied is owned by Nathan Sproul, an Arizona political consultant for Republicans whose companies have faced charges in past elections of submitting forged forms and of dumping Democratic registrations. None of the charges were proved, and Sproul continues to do get-out-the-vote work for conservative causes this election.

It’s a two-front war to help disenfranchise the poor and minorities, and therefore help Republican candidates. Long gone are the days of the GOP’s big tent – now, the tent door is shut, and it has reverted to agitation for a poll tax on the one hand, and ignoring or encouraging registration fraud on the other. The Brad Blog goes into excruciating detail.

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It is pathetic that the republicans are afraid of the will of the American voter. Why can’t they run on their record? Why do they need to suppress a portion of the electorate to be competitive?
It is because they offer nothing new or positive, and cling to a failed ideology of greed, intolerance, and elitism. Their ‘big tent’ looks more and more like a pup tent, filled with only angry old white men.

Like their standard-bearer, the GOP will say and do anything to attain and retain power. They’ve enacted the voter registration measures via control of Secretary of State offices nationwide. One case I’m familiar with is Colorado’s Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who’s recently completed a self-directed purge of “unauthorized” voters on the rolls.

Gessler had the audacity to charge taxpayers for a trip to Florida to The Republican National Lawyers Conference and defending it by saying, “This is the only way for me to find out what the hot issues are in election law.”